I Am Fascinated By Human Behavior

Why are so many Americans depressed and on antidepressants when we have the easiest lives of any other country and live in the easiest times in history? Some of us have a genetic predisposition to depression but it seems everybody and their neighbor is on an antidepressant or anti-anxiety. I doubt people in generations past were as unhappy as we are.

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Miram · 31-35, F

Americans don't have the easiest lives.

SW-User

@Miram lol

Miram · 31-35, F

@SW-User They really don't. I'd be terrified if I was this sick and lived there.

The idea that the american life is top-notch is media fabricated. They concentrate on the worst cases in other countries,and the best in their own. Just like France does..

I know people in the US that have no food and must skip meals to save for transportation.

And then there is the fact that most want short cuts..It's human nature. They want quick pleasures and they end up using that as a compensation for what really makes them content.

I read a behavioral experiment few years where mice lost interest in mating and socializing, scientists thought it was because there was an abundance of food. No challenges made them uninterested in living. So there is that too.

Cloud7593 · 46-50, F

@Miram Yes maybe Americans don't have it as easy as I think. A better term would be we have it less difficult than any other country, or so I've been led to believe.

Cloud7593 · 46-50, F

@Miram where do you live?